Headteacher’s Challenge #20

Good morning to another glorious Thursday morning 🙂

The ECC staff are all loving their phone calls to the children that they’ve made so far – they’re so pleased to hear about your lockdown adventures and stories.  If your keyworker hasn’t phoned you yet – don’t worry!  They’ll be phoning over the next few days and possibly into next week as they’re blethering so much that the phone calls are taking much longer than anticipated!

Back in April I gave you a Food Tasting Challenge, and I received so many brilliant success stories about foods that you now like that I’m challenging you again – but with a twist.

Today’s Challenge is a Fruit/Vegetable Food Challenge. 

My oldest son has discovered that he now likes strawberries … after years of being offered strawberries and turning his nose up at them, they are now his most favourite food in the world!

There are so many delicious fruits and vegetables in the shops right now that I challenge you to try 3 new food items that you’ve always thought you never liked, or just haven’t tasted before.  Remember to let me know if you find a new favourite fruit or vegetable. I’m going to try pineapple, grapefruit and courgettes – I’ll let you know how I get on …

Tuesday’s Tower Challenge was a big hit – I’ve received so many brilliant photos of the most creative towers.  Well done to everyone who completed the challenge, including Oscar who had suitcases, pots and pans in his tower!

As always, take care, stay safe and keep in touch.  Mrs Govans x

Judith.govans@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

10AM Daily Task – 27th May 2020

Good Morning Everyone,

So far this year we have had Safe Suzie, Healthy Hannah and Achieving Andy as our superhero characters supporting us on our quest through all aspects of Health and Well-being using the SHANARRI indicators .  The children have designed these characters and named them all on their own.  Today’s task is to design a character to support us while exploring Active and what this means to us.  The pictures below are just examples, I would love to see the children draw their own superhero and name them using the letter A.  It would be great to see what the children come up with and their creations can be emailed to myself at ealesley-anne.adams@glow.sch.uk and we will vote for who we think should be our Active Superhero!  Have fun, I can’t wait to see your creations

               

 

Daily Task 26th May (Making memories 2020)

 2020    Making memories together.

We hope you have fun with these ideas, spend time together and simply chat. Please be mindful of social distancing and be aware of others around you at this time.

We would love to see or hear how your child got on with the challenge  through uploading picture / photos to our email.        alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Remember if you have older / younger siblings within your family then they can be involved too.

We look forward to seeing all of your pictures

What could you make to remember these very special times, when the the world needed everyone to stay apart.

Who stayed in your house, can you make a keepsake of this.

2020 Lockdown

You can use Salt dough and make a plate, get a grown up to help you measure out the ingredients, take turns creating your salt dough.

As I am aware it is not always easy to get flour, you could create a picture instead, by using painted / cut out handprints , you may also wish to include you pet paw print too. Here is a few ideas:-

  

Remember to send us your pictures of your finished art work too:-

alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Can’t wait to see who you all spent time with in your houses 2020

Headteacher’s Challenge #19

Good morning Tuesday 🙂

I hope you all enjoyed a lovely relaxing long weekend with your family.  I went a HUGE walk with my husband, sons and dogs and my legs are still aching …

Thanks to everyone who took part in the Animal Quiz – I’d love to hear who the winner was in your family. 

I was tidying out my youngest son’s bedroom (AGAIN!) at the weekend and I asked him to tidy up his book shelf.  He proceeded to build a huge tower of books on the floor, and then added other items to the books to see if he could make the tower taller than himself – he did manage and then he had an even bigger mess to tidy up once he knocked the tower of books, Top Trumps cards and PS4 games over!

So today’s challenge is a Construction one – try to build a tower that is taller than yourself BUT you can’t use all the same objects!  For instance, you can’t just build a tower from Lego/Jenga blocks/storage boxes … that would be too easy.  You can only use three of the same items so you’ll need to get VERY creative and think about a wide range of items that you could use to build your tower that will safely stack on top of each other.  The taller you are – the harder the challenge!  I look forward to seeing the photographic evidence that you completed the challenge…

Keep telling us about your achievements during this time away from the ECC – Achieving Andy loves to hear what you’ve been up to!

As always, take care, stay safe and keep in touch.  Mrs Govans x

Judith.govans@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

HT Challenge #18 – Quiz Answers

Well done to everyone who participated in the Animal Quiz.  Check your answers against the list below and let me know who was the winner in your house.  No cheating!

  1. What’s the fastest land animal? A CHEETAH
  2. How many lives is a cat said to have? NINE
  3. What do you call a baby kangaroo? A JOEY
  4. What do you call a group of sheep? A HERD/FLOCK (both are acceptable)
  5. How many legs does a spider have? EIGHT
  6. What’s the tallest animal in the world? A GIRAFFE
  7. What kind of animal is Shere Khan in ‘The Jungle Book’? A TIGER
  8. How many horns did a triceratops have? THREE
  9. Nala and Simba are what kind of animal? LIONS
  10. What type of dog is Marshall from ‘Paw Patrol’? A DALMATION

Wishing you all a lovely long weekend with your family 🙂

Mrs Govans x  

FRIDAY 22nd MAY – DAILY TASK

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all keeping safe and well!

Today’s task is very fun and exciting, and I am looking forward to you joining in with it!

TASK- With a grown up’s help, let’s bake! You can bake any kind of cake, fairy cakes, cupcakes, chocolate cakes. Anything you like!

From this task, you can use so many of your skills that you know and learn new skills- with adult support when required:

  • measuring/weighing/cutting ingredients
  • mixing ingredients
  • putting the mixture into a tin or cupcake cases
  • decorating what you have made

This task gives you the opportunity to have fun, get a little messy and learn new things! I really look forward to seeing your cake creations, remember to send photos to either – alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk or ealeoni.gilmour@glow.sch.uk

 

Have great fun doing this task, have a wonderful week and remember stay home and stay safe 🙂 !

 

 

Thursday 21st May – Daily Post

Are you all listening?

Now boys and girls, have you got your listening ears switched on?

I need you to listen carefully to these sounds and shout out what you think they are – some are a bit tricky.

Listening Game – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT8u1ge58jc

Listen to these sounds – can you guess what they are? How many did you get correct?

Next time you are out for a walk or in your garden can you listen out for some more sounds – what type of things can you hear?

Headteacher’s Challenge #18

Good morning Thursday 🙂 (although I’m cheating a wee bit by posting this on Wednesday night as I’m working in the hub today).

I’ve loved reading through the certificates for all of your achievements at home – keep your successes and photos coming in as we loving seeing what you’ve been up to at home.

Today’s challenge is … an Animal Quiz.  There’s 10 questions so you can either answer the questions individually, with one person being the quizmaster or split your family into teams.  I’ll post the answers on Friday afternoon so that you can see who the winners are.  Good luck!

Animal questions

1. What’s the fastest land animal?

2. How many lives is a cat said to have?

3. What do you call a baby kangaroo?

4. What do you call a group of sheep?

5. How many legs does a spider have?

6. What’s the tallest animal in the world?

7. What kind of animal is Shere Khan in ‘The Jungle Book’?

8. How many horns did a triceratops have?

9. Nala and Simba are what kind of animal?

10. What type of dog is Marshall from ‘Paw Patrol’?

As always, stay safe, take care and keep in touch.  Mrs Govans x

Judith.govans@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

 

Jan’s Green Group Achievement

 Jan’s Green Group

Achieving Andy wants to know what you have achieved :-

parents and children – we love to hear how everyone is getting on, lets celebrate together……………….

Cole has been working really hard on his writing skills during lockdown. We are all very proud of your achievements, keep up the fantastic work, Cole.

Ashton from Rena’s Blue group sent me a selection of pictures as he has been looking after the birds in his garden. Well done, Ashton.

Wednesday 20th May- Daily Challenge

Lolly stick planes

What you will need: 1 wooden peg, pens, 3 ice lolly sticks, elastic bands or glue and scissors.

Instructions

  • Colour your wooden peg and lolly sticks.
  • Glue or use your elastic band to stick or hold one lolly sick on the top of your peg and one on the bottom of your peg.
  • Use the scissors to cut the last lolly stick to make a short tail for your plane then glue it onto the peg.

Have you ever been on a plane?  Where did the plane take you?

Can you name any parts of a plane before watching the video?

Here is a video about the different parts of a plane and how they work.

Can you think of anything else that can fly ? 

Have fun !

Tuesday 19th May- Daily challenge

Good morning boys and girls, Teddy has a quick message for you all which leads on to todays literacy challenge.

Teddy had great fun making this letter collage for you! Now, you can make a lovely collage of your own!

Cut and stick logos from magazines, food packaging etc. Create what you like with these, whether this be a poster like teddies or a lovely rainbow using the variety of colours from the logo, its all down to your own creativity!

Whilst cutting… Do you recognise any of the logos? Can you spot any letters from your name?

Headteacher’s Challenge #17

Good morning and welcome to another week of home learning.

Today’s challenge is another singing one.  With the change in the weather (where has the sunshine gone?!) I’m finding it a bit of a challenge to get out of bed in the morning so I’m hoping that this song will help me start each day off on a positive note, as it’s all about waking up and getting ready for the day ahead. 

We sing this song regularly at Monday morning assemblies at the primary school so big brothers and sisters will definitely know it.  If it’s a new song to you, I’m sure you’ll learn it very quickly and will be singing it all day around the house.

As always, take care, stay safe and keep in touch.  Mrs Govans x

Judith.govans@east-ayrshire.gov.u

PS I think Alana might have a wee surprise for you all later on today … 🙂

 

Monday 18th May – DAILY TASK

Good morning everyone, hope you all had a lovely weekend.
Where has Mr Golden Sun gone?!☀️

Today we are going to be counting car colours.
Whilst out your daily walk or looking out your window why don’t you record the colour of cars that pass by? (If you don’t have any stickers at home you can draw circles, stars etc, instead.)

At the end of the activity you can count the stickers/drawings/markings to identify the most and least colour of car that you saw.

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